Top 1200 Measure Of A Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I think that Congress and its affiliates and journalists who support them have made trolling quite a sophisticated measure of intervention.

Is it then saying too much if I say, that man by thinking only becomes truly man? Take away thought from man's life, and what remains?

A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.

All I think about is playing at the highest level and in the top competitions so I can measure myself against the best in the world.

Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of conscious innocence which is the sequence to hope; then he began to doubt his own innocence, which justified in some measure the governor's belief in his mental alienation; and then, relaxing his sentiment of pride, he addressed his supplications, not to God, but to man. God is always the last resource. Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?

When the enemy comes with shame and blame, tell him to go measure the distance from east to west and get back to you.

I would like to think I am a little bit of a man's man and a ladies' man. I suppose, I'm a guy's guy because I like to do a lot of, you know, the man stuff: Working out, off-roading, getting on the dirt bike and what not. I am a ladies' man because I spend more time with girls than I do with guys.

Jesus did not come to strike a balance between grace and truth. He brought the full measure of both.

I'm bothered when people don't understand that they have an obligation to use their best measure of devotion, of resources, to sacrifice for the common good.

It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

Though I am alive now, I do not believe an old man's pessimism is nessessarily truer than a young man's optimism simply because it comes after. There are things a young man knows that are true and are not yet in the old man's power to recollect. Spring has its sappy wisdom.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

There will always be a measure of calculated risk-taking in manufacturing fame, especially in a deeply divided political climate.

I care about how many people's lives I've positively impacted. That's the unit of measurement I measure myself by.

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.

I measure success by how many people love me. And the best way to be loved is to be lo veable.

When I sang my father's songs in concert, that was all people wanted to hear. I was always asking myself, 'Can I measure up?'

He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion.

Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos--to the unknown--which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination.

It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic.

Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.

When someone tells a man to be a man, they mean that there is a way to be a man. A man is not just a thing to be-it is also a way to be, a path to follow and a way to walk. Some try to make manhood mean everything. Others believe that it means nothing at all. Being good at being a man can't mean everything, and it has always meant something.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

I figured I could do 'It's A Man's Man's Man's World', because I believe it's the truth.

I am Mafuzzy Man, original man, 100 percent pure, man.

You can't measure a dog's intelligence by giving him a verbal test 'cause it's not on their scale, but that doesn't mean they're not intelligent creatures.

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.

The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality.

Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.

One of my heroes is Mr. Sidney Poitier. In his autobiography, "The Measure of a Man," he talks about the difference between being a great person and being a great actor. I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second. I believe that acting is a talent while being a great person encompasses so much more: being a good father, a good husband and the ability to show compassion for others.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.

Never measure literature by accounting statistics. A quarter of working authors earn less than $1,000.

This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.

Creativity is not like the weather: You can do something about it. And you can measure it well enough to determine its effect on sales and profits.

If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves.

Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.

The American president just won the nobel peace prize, by any reasonable measure, all Americans should be proud.

As a society, we come up lacking in many of the marks of compassion and wisdom by which we measure ourselves as civilized.

It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.

Generally, I cook from the soul and measure by eye, throwing in this and that along the way. But I want to be a certified chef. That's one of my goals.

The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

The man who fears man falls from the estate of man. Fear God alone.

I figured I could do "It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World" because I believe it's the truth.

Improving education is an area where we can find common ground. We have to measure our progress and hold ourselves accountable.

She is more beautiful than I have words for. And last night, I was blessed beyond measure to serve her.

Modesty isn't always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.

Every man has problems that only life insurance can solve. In the young man’s case, the problem is to create cash; for the older man, to conserve it.

All players want nice things to be said and written about them and you have to take the reverse in equal measure.

No economic measure has more value for a nation than investing in a clean & sustainable low carbon future

The hope or climbing aspiration of a divine child is to receive and achieve Peace, Light and Bliss in infinite measure.

I've never seen a sincere white man, not when it comes to helping black people. Usually things like this are done by white people to benefit themselves. The white man's primary interest is not to elevate the thinking of black people, or to waken black people, or white people either. The white man is interested in the black man only to the extent that the black man is of use to him. The white man's interest is to make money, to exploit.

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.

God is the Man, and there's another Man, Stan 'The Man' Musial in St. Louis.

The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.

If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos].

To be a real man, I think you have to be supportive of each other and to be a real woman you have to be supportive of your man, and the man has to do the same thing, only then he would be a real man.

What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God's compassion for someone?